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Amazon.com Rezension

Amazon Hacks is a collection of tips and tools for getting the most out of Amazon.com, whether you're an avid Amazon shopper, Amazon Associate developing
your online storefront and honing your recommendations for better linking and more referral fees, seller listing your own products for sale on Amazon.com, or
a programmer building your own application on the foundation provided by the rich Amazon Web Services API.
Shoppers will learn how to make the most of Amazon.com's deep functionality and become part of the Amazon community, maintain wishlists, tune
recommendations, "share the love" with friends and family, etc. Amazon Associates will find tips for how best to list their titles, how to promote their
offerings by fine tuning search criteria and related titles information, and even how to make their store fronts more attractive. And the real power users
will use the Amazon API to build Amazon-enabled applications, create store fronts and populate them with items to be picked, packed and shipped by Amazon.
And just about anyone can become a seller on Amazon.com, listing items, deciding on pricing, and fulfilling orders for products new and used.

Kundenrezension

"Awesome collection of Hacks" - Todd Hawley from San Francisco Bay AreaHaving posted over 200 reviews on Amazon
over the past three years, I thought I was reasonably familiar with what Amazon had to offer on its site. While I was familiar with wish lists, posting
reviews and the like, this book proved me wrong, as I learned about numerous other features (especially movie show times!) that Amazon offers. Among the
features are finding individual ASIN's (Amazon Standard Item Number) for each product listed on Amazon, switching to a text-only Amazon (good if you want
Amazon's site to load quickly), "power searching" on books, linking to personal Amazon reviews from your own web site, and countless others. There are also
hacks designed to make it more convenient to sell items through Amazon, or participate in the Amazon community, even some hacks designed to let you use
Amazon's Web Services. I'm not a programmer, so I'm not interested in those hacks specifically, but they do show how Amazon's Web Services can be used to
create alternative interfaces that may be of use to Amazon or other fellow programmers.
Amazon Hacks shows how by using some "tricks," you can make your own use of Amazon and its numerous services that much more enjoyable and useful. This book
is a wonderful "guide" to some interesting "hacks" that can be used while browsing the Amazon